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Lives Lived, Lives Imagined - Landscapes of Resilience in the Works of Miriam Toews (Hardcover)
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Lives Lived, Lives Imagined - Landscapes of Resilience in the Works of Miriam Toews (Hardcover)
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Perceptive, controversial, topical, and achingly funny, Miriam
Toews's books have earned her a place at the forefront of Canadian
literature. In this first monograph on Toews's work, Sabrina Reed
examines the interplay of trauma and resilience in the author's
fiction. Reed skillfully demonstrates how Toews situates resilience
across key themes, including: the home as both a source of trauma
and an inspiration for resilient action; the road trip as a search
for resolution and redemption; and the reframing of the Mennonite
diaspora as an escape from patriarchal oppression. The dual
suicides of Toews's father and sister stand out as the most
shocking and tragic of the author's biographical details, and Reed
explores Toews's use of autofiction as a reparative gesture in the
face of this trauma.Written in an accessible style that will appeal
to both scholars and devotees of Toews's work, Lives Lived, Lives
Imagined is a timely examination of Toews's oeuvre and a
celebration of fiction's ability to simultaneously embody
compassion and anger, joy and sadness, and to brave the personal
and communal oppressions of politics, religion, family, society,
and mental illness.
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